Open source software projects as virtual organisations: competency rallying for software development

Crowston, Kevin; Scozzi, Barbara

doi:10.1049/ip-sen:20020197

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“…It spreads the cost for creating and maintaining the information infrastructure of the virtual organization that constitute a FOSSD project [7,48]. These in turn help create recognizable shares of the FOSS commons [2,49,50] that are linked (via hardware, software, Internet and Web) to the project's information infrastructure.…”

Section: Personal Software Development Tools and Networking Supportmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…FOSS developers organize their work as a virtual organizational form [7,18,48] that seems to differ from what is common to in-house, centrally managed software development projects, which are commonly assumed in traditional SE textbooks. In the decentralized virtual organization of a large ongoing FOSSD project like the Apache.org or Mozilla.org, a hierarchical role/skill-based meritocracy [22,6,34] …”

Section: Skilledmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Similarly, other participants must be able to both learn from and contribute to the efforts of the core developers. Together these realize a virtual, meritocratic, or self-managed form of decentralized software project management [7,58].…”

Section: Skilledmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…22,58] operating as a dynamically organized virtual enterprise [7,18,48]. A layered meritocracy is a hierarchical organizational form that centralizes and concentrates certain kinds of authority, trust, and respect for experience and accomplishment within the team [cf.…”

Section: Cooperation Coordination and Control In Foss Projectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Through choices that developers make for their participation and contribution to a FOSSD project, they find that there are like-minded individuals who also choose to participate and contribute to a project. These software developers find and connect with each other through FOSSD Web sites and online discourse (e.g., threaded discussions on bulletin boards) [45], and they find they share many technical competencies, values, and beliefs in common [7,18,20]. This manifests itself in the emergence of an alliance of collaborating FOSSD projects that share either common interests or development methods in projects that adopt a given FOSS system for subsequent application development, or in a occupational network of FOSS developers [18].…”

Section: Alliance Formation Inter-project Social Networking and Commmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Collaboration Practices and Affordances in Free/Open Source Software Development

Scacchi

2010

Collaborative Software Engineering

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Abstract. This chapter examines collaborative work practices, development processes, project and community dynamics, and other socio-technical relationships in free and open source software development (FOSSD). It also describes what kinds of collaboration affordances facilitate collaborative work in FOSSD projects. It reviews a set of empirical studies of FOSSD that articulate different levels of analysis. Finally, there is discussion of limitations and constraints in understanding what collaboration practices and affordances arise in FOSSD studies and how they work, and then to emerging opportunities for future FOSSD studies.

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Section: Personal Software Development Tools and Networking Supportmentioning

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Section: Skilledmentioning

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Section: Cooperation Coordination and Control In Foss Projectsmentioning

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Section: Alliance Formation Inter-project Social Networking and Commmentioning

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Impact of license choice on Open Source Software development activity

Colazo

Fang

2009

J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci.

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The Open Source Software (OSS) development model has emerged as an important competing paradigm to proprietary alternatives; however, insufficient research exists to understand the influence of some OSS project characteristics on the level of activity of the development process. A basic such characteristic is the selection of the project's software license. Drawing upon social movement theory, our study examined the relationship between OSS licenses and project activity. Some OSS licenses include a "copyleft" clause, which requires that if derivative products are to be released, it must be done under the license the original product had. We hypothesize that copylefted licenses, as opposed to noncopylefted licenses, are associated with higher developer membership and coding activity, faster development speed, and longer developer permanence in the project. To test the hypotheses, we used archival data sources of working OSS projects spanning several years of development time. We discuss practical and theoretical implications of the results as well as future research ideas.

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Open source software projects as virtual organisations: competency rallying for software development

Cited by 146 publications

References 25 publications

Collaboration Practices and Affordances in Free/Open Source Software Development

Collaboration Practices and Affordances in Free/Open Source Software Development

Impact of license choice on Open Source Software development activity

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